Tuesday, December 25, 2012

It was probably the worst day and time to go to the post office. Just a few weeks before Christmas, prime mailing time. It was also 1:00. Everyone though that was a good time. It was not a good time. In fact, it was right smack in the middle of the worker's lunch so there was only one cashier to assist the ever growing line.

I had no choice. My swap buddy needed her gift and I had sold some DVDs that I can only presume were going to be Christmas presents. So I waited along with everyone else.

Midway to my destination, I noticed the guy in front of me and took a really good look at him. He was wearing dress slacks, a mid length black leather coat, a hat that was somewhere between a cowboy hat and a fedora, and rose colored glasses.

He also had nothing in his hands whatsoever.

Unusual as most people had multiple packages and envelopes in our hands and we were all trying to figure out where to set them down to ease our burdens. So I wondered why the man in front of me was there.* Finally, we reached our destination and he was next. He stepped up to the counter and very quietly and with great concentration said:

"I would like one exquisite stamp."

While I tried to wrap my head around why someone would wait in line for almost an hour, the cashier tried to find him an exquisite stamp:

"How about this one?"

"Nope."

"This one?"

"Nope."

He eliminated them all until none were left and finally settled on one. Then he wanted to pay his 42 cents or whatever and take one stamp. After much debate, he was told he would have to buy the whole book and that he could not, in fact, have just one exquisite stamp.

I guess you can't always get what you want, especially if it is exquisite.

Here's hoping you got everything you wanted today and throughout the year!

1 important things being said:

You know, the post office must not like to sell stamps individually anymore. I wanted to buy seven Christmas stamps, and the p.o. didn't seem interested in selling me just the seven and I had to buy the whole book.

Did that guy buy a book too? Don't know why I want to know that, I just do!